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Originally Posted by barryem
I buy my books from Amazon and then remove the DRM and upload a mobi version to my library at Amazon. I do this so I can read it on a variety of devices and not have to worry about it. But I got nervous about getting in trouble with Amazon for doing this so I called Kindle support to see how they feel about it.
The guy asked around and called me back the next day and said no-one there could see any problem with it, even his supervisor, and that some of the support people also did that.
I've been doing it ever since and so far never a problem. About the Book doesn't work when I do this. Presumably neither will popular highlights but since I keep them turned off I can't be sure. Syncing works just fine between my Kindles.
Barry
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Hi Barry, I' quite surprised that Amazon would say it's no problem in removing the DRM, did you mention this part? I would have thought they would say it may break their T&C's but you never know, a lot of these 'support' departments (I used to run one) don't always have the brightest of individuals or just give out mis-information.
That said, I've just started using Calibre myself. My main reason was to de-DRM the books. I've been reading ebooks since the start of dawn, for me that was in the early 90's back in the Palm Pilot and Palm DB days. Then went onto Peanut Press and eReader.com where I purchased about 500 ebooks, sadly B&N bought them out and closed them down, I never could get the conversion to convert my books over to B&N so lost them all. Lately I've actually been re-purchasing the better author books and re-reading them again on my Kindles but it got me thinking. I doubt Amazon will ever drop off the face of the earth but different formats can overcome others, it wouldn't surprise me if Google or Apple with iBooks became the de facto standard in decades to come. I'd hate to lose all of my Kindle purchased ebooks, so I started to de-DRM them with Calibre.
My main question to you is, are you sending them to your Kindle via the Send to Kindle service, and if so are they working okay, like no problems with your account? Or are you just side loading them? I've been side loading them up until now as I wasn't sure but would prefer to have them appear in my Amazon Cloud so I can access them on several of my Kindle devices easily without having to side load to each device.